[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Cain
Cain added the comment: Awesome, that resolved it. Simply started idle through the command window, then changed the theme back to the default. Thanks Roger. -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Closing as a duplicate. Roger, thanks for the analysis. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> IDLE and pythonw.exe stderr problem ___ Python tracker

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Roger Serwy
Roger Serwy added the comment: The reason why IDLE failed to launch is due to stderr=None when using pythonw.exe. The first Warning message cause IDLE to abort. See issue13582 for more details and a solution to the problem of IDLE not starting. Cain, your home directory should contain a folde

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Cain
Cain added the comment: Terry - just ran that command as you suggested and it did bring up idle, however also reported errors in the command window: Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving theme element 'stderr-foreground' from theme 'desert'. returning defa

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: If python itself runs, you can easily try this from inside the interpreter >>> from idlelib import idle This *should* bring up the Idle shell window. It just did for me on 64 bit Win7. If not, there *should* be an error traceback you can cut and paste here.

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ah, I think I know what happened. When I said "command line", I didn't mean "Python (command line)", but "CMD shell", as found in the start menu (i.e. cmd.exe). The line I gave you is, of course, invalid Python syntax. If you have never used the Windows co

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Can you please attach your idle.py, and/or figure out why it has a syntax error on line 1? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Cain
Cain added the comment: Running Windows 7. I get the following output when running the requested command: File "", line 1 python.exe Lib\idlelib\idle.py SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Roger Serwy
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[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Please run, from the command line, in the Python installation python.exe Lib\idlelib\idle.py and report any output you get. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker __

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-17 Thread Anthony Kong
Anthony Kong added the comment: Which os? windows or linux or osx? It actually sounds like a support question. You probably should take the question to the python newsgroup (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/comp.lang.python). -- nosy: +Anthony.Kong ___

[issue14838] IDLE Will not load on reinstall

2012-05-16 Thread Cain
New submission from Cain : After reinstalling Python 3.2.2, I have been unable to load IDLE - it simply refuses to respond. I have tried upgrading to 3.3 also, and still have the same problem - following multiple uninstalls, reinstalls and searching, I can't appear to find any solution to this